How high does the house rise - how high to pile up earth (cellar depth low)?

  • Erstellt am 2022-10-15 19:11:42

Machu Picchu

2022-10-15 22:43:00
  • #1


In what way do you mean that something (what exactly?) was overlooked here?
 

askforafriend

2022-10-15 22:51:09
  • #2
I just don’t understand in general how anyone can plan it like that. The basement is planned way too high, period. This would have been a flat 0/8/15 plot – really cheap to build on. Maybe catch up on the backside, okay. Additional costs (pointless additional costs) are accepted (stairs that are not needed, walls, etc.) because no lifting system was “commissioned”? What does that mean? How can you let something like this happen to you? I really feel sorry now, but it’s going to cost a lot of money to do it this way – you have to carry through the mess of the “planner” now, but minus times minus might be acceptable for you then. What a pity. :( So my advice: carry through the plan, it doesn’t get “better” than that!

This can’t be true at all. Really terrible. :(
 

WilderSueden

2022-10-15 22:56:54
  • #3
I see a basement here that protrudes about 2/3 out of the ground at the front. In addition, an implied staircase with 4 steps that is clearly less than half of the embankment. How this can be accepted by the builder is a mystery to me. Be that as it may, you have to get out again... I don't see an embankment with this budget. Less because of the embankment itself, but then you have to support 2m again in all directions and sometimes have very little space. The retaining walls would be very expensive. I would consider maybe embanking one meter and then entering the house with small outdoor stairs.
 

Machu Picchu

2022-10-15 22:59:36
  • #4


During the planning a year ago, the lifting system was mentioned, but it was quickly dismissed by the general contractor and us, as we all unanimously preferred the alternative, namely raising the house à la the neighboring houses plus the retaining wall. (But not that we would be raised so much higher than the neighbors – we only realized that after completion). Back then, the consensus was rather that by omitting the lifting system we would save money and thus reach a level comparable to the neighbors.
 

Myrna_Loy

2022-10-15 23:02:28
  • #5
And plan the stairs to the terrace as seating stairs and possibly with planter boxes. I would never pile up to the full planned height! That is too much effort for an absolutely unattractive garden and rightly offended neighbors who have to look at L stones. And with the lovingly tended espalier fruit trees at the neighbor’s entrance side, I predict eternal enmity if you pile up 2 meters there. What are they drinking in that planning office, one wonders. Probably nitro thinner.
 

askforafriend

2022-10-15 23:11:16
  • #6


So you never even once visited the site? Wasn't there a construction log? You really have a lot to blame yourselves for. I really doubt this story, sorry. Don’t you have any plans showing the heights? What kind of general contractor is that? Is this his first house? Have you ever googled what lifting systems cost? And retaining walls? Exterior works? You considered raising the basement and retaining walls cheaper than a lifting system? For what purpose actually the system? You don’t even have living space now (you basically have no daylight despite “free space” around). Honestly, no one can help here.
 

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